William J. Mayo Quotes
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa.
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In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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Mi pesadez viene de los precipicios.
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My favourite day is like when it's raining, and I can just lie on the couch.
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Imagine ... Imagine no religion.
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Self-knowledge will reveal the elements of biological human nature from which modern social life proliferated in all its strange forms.
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Growing up, I was your classic Catholic Irish kid. I went to mass every Sunday. Then in secondary school I went to boarding school, and there was mass seven days a week before breakfast - it may have put me off!
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The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.
